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The first email I received is from my first Chatgpt plus account. The second one received a little different email

Subject: Chat and Work are coming together in one experience.

Hello,

In the coming weeks, we’ll start testing a combined experience for Chat and Work tabs in ChatGPT with a small group of users. We’ll use their feedback to improve the experience before bringing it to more people.

This will enable you to move from exploring an idea to having ChatGPT carry it through, all in one place. You can bring in your files and plugins and ask ChatGPT to build a website, create a presentation, or do things for you on the web, while reviewing and guiding its work. Codex will remain a separate experience in the ChatGPT desktop app.

A shared allowance for ChatGPT and Codex

As part of this unified experience, your use of ChatGPT and Codex will draw from the same allowance in the coming weeks. We’re preparing carefully for this transition to help prevent disruption to your workflows. We expect most users won’t need to wait for their usage to reset more often than they do today. Usage will depend on model and task, with more advanced models and complex tasks using more of your allowance. Unlimited Instant is included in your plan and will not draw from your usage.

You will be able to see your combined remaining usage and reset times in Settings → Usage. If you use your full allowance, you can wait for it to reset, upgrade your plan, or buy credits to continue using eligible features.

The OpenAI team

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (cit)

A simpler way to put ChatGPT to work (A shared allowance for ChatGPT and Codex)

I just received this email from [email protected]: A simpler way to put ChatGPT to workHello,In the coming weeks, you’ll be able to delegate work directly to ChatGPT — from building sites and presentations to taking action on the web — without switching to the Work tab.Tell ChatGPT what you want to accomplish. It can decide when to use these capabilities, break complex tasks into...

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Thanks for posting. I can't find a detailed list of Excel functions supported, not supported, work in progress. I'm interested for example in FORECAST.ETS and others.
Re:Will Financial Modeling in Excel Be Dead Soon? on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:08PM (#45270339)
An extract of the (very short) article: "Stage 3: Agentic AI This is the final, most profound stage. What if the system could run itself? Agentic AI platforms from companies like Pigment and Anaplan are creating systems of autonomous agents that perceive, reason, and act. Imagine an "Analyst" agent detecting a sales variance. It triggers a "Planner" agent to investigate, which then activates a "Modeler" agent to run simulations and propose a new budget. The human is no longer in the loop; they are overseeing it. Is this not the endgame?"

Asking Google about the normal typical cost of deployment of Pigment or Anaplan: "Pigment pricing starts around $500-800 annually per Explorer seat, with Contributor and Editor seats costing more, leading to a total cost of $75,300-$106,250 annually for a Professional configuration. Anaplan, a competitor, has pricing that starts around $200,000 per year, but final costs depend on company size and model complexity. Pigment is best for companies seeking a modern, visual, and flexible planning platform, while Anaplan is more suited for enterprises with highly complex, structured, and large-scale planning needs."

Those platforms are targeted to big companies, but I doubt that the author (as me I'm doing for a living) has any idea about the capability of spending of small/medium companies and the budget allocated to the financial modeling (if any).

Anyway, speaking about talking after reading, my answer is yes, Excel has and will have a place for financial modeling and the article isn't providing any concrete evidence of the contrary.

Where is the link to the tool?
Re:Ask HN: Is there a ipynb/VSCode equivalent for Node.js? on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:15PM (#41831672)
I don't know about Nodejs, but Deno has notebook support built-in

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/reference/cli/jupyter/

Re:Ask HN: Best AI Tools for Spreadsheets on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:28AM (#41327482)
Have you seen this? A recent article from Microsoft showing the capabilities of Copilot in Excel

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/see-what-s...

What's the price of it? Being the usage of it tied to an Anaconda.cloud account [1], the free tier will have any limitations?

https://anaconda.cloud/pricing

Re:Deno: What we got wrong about HTTP imports on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:10PM (#41124033)
Can't you use also Node with `--experimental-network-imports` flag?

https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#https-and-http-imports

I use it as a backup platform to Deno to test my code.

Caution! Curious about this comment (having a family member with Parkinson's) I searched for treatment from naturalherbscentre.com and I found that this type of comment was copy-pasted elsewhere

Here https://www.crossfit.com/230111 there are 3 of them!

It is really bad to play with people's health and suggest to stop taking real medications.

Re:Show HN: Online SQL Playground and Data Analysis Tool on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @09:01AM (#40727889)
which AI are you using? how do you cover the cost of it being your site free (unless there is a paid plan that I didn't see)?
by Ryan O’Connell, CFA, FRM

Over lunch the other day, a friend mentioned his brother, a professional asset manager, swears by a simple mean reversion trading strategy. His strategy consists of buying the 10 biggest losers in the stock market each day and selling them at the close of the following trading session. I asked him if he knew which index or exchange his brother used to pick his losers from, and he told me that he wasn’t certain. As a curious casual investor, I decided to put this strategy to the test using historical data and backtest the trading strategy with Python.

Disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended to serve as personal financial advice.

What you will learn from this backtesting tutorialCopy heading link In this article, I’ll walk through the process of backtesting a daily Dow Jones mean reversion strategy using Python in Datalore notebooks. To make it accessible even for those with limited coding experience, I’ll leverage Datalore’s AI Assistant capabilities. I’ll also show how intuitive prompts can be used to create the key components of the backtest, and demonstrate Datalore’s interactive charting and reporting features to effectively analyze and share the backtest results.

To make things more challenging for myself (and easier for you), I won’t write a single line of code myself. Every line of code in this tutorial will be generated by AI as shown below: [...]

Re:Exotic selfhosted solutions for personal usage on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:02AM (#39262596)
my elderly father lives alone and tends to fall asleep on the toilet. I have developed a solution with Arduino that, after an initial measurement, monitors the appearance of obstacles in front of him. after 15 minutes of the obstacle remaining, it emits a sound for 10 seconds and starts monitoring again.

https://youtu.be/uuRDD-5Vv9k

Have you tried PYXLL (https://www.pyxll.com/)?

Is a commercial product to use Python inside Excel.

Re:Ask HN: How do I build a website as a backend engineer? on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:12AM (#33670812)
I’d use observable. Here is an example of a mortgage calculator https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/modeling-in-observabl... . And you can create a page to collect all your calculators (other observable pages).